Recently, Lowvelder won the Cronwright Trophy for Best Corporate-owned Paid Newspaper, circulation more than 10 000, at the annual MDDA-Sanlam Local Media Awards. This was the fifth consecutive year the newspaper has taken the trophy home. Its sister publication, Mpumalanga News, won the Hultzer Trophy for the Best Corporate-owned Paid Newspaper, circulation less than 10 000, giving Lowveld Media
two of the most sought-after, best community/local newspaper awards in the country. With this achievement, Lowvelder has made history as the first newspaper to win the three biggest titles in the community- newspaper sphere in South Africa in one year. In March Lowvelder won the Caxton Award for the Best Sold Publication with a circulation of 8 000 or more. The Caxton Awards is open for all community newspapers within its stable of 140 nationwide. A huge honour was bestowed upon the newspaper when it won an ATKV-Mediaveertjie as best community newspaper earlier this year.
